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It all sounds innocent enough until you read about the requirement for "Quality parameters" to be collected from "Meeting quality monitoring devices", which might give some pause for thought. Productivity Score relies on metrics captured within Microsoft 365 to assess how productive a company and its workers are.
The new Microsoft Teams additions include call transfer, spam reduction, CarPlay support, streamlined calling experience, and more. Microsoft is rolling out a new enhanced calling experience with a new screen to access the dialpad, call history, voicemail, contacts, and settings.
Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing Windows 10 blue screens of death crashes when users plugged in a Thunderbolt NVMe Solid State Drive. To be impacted by this known issue Windows 10 device would have to feature at least one Thunderbolt NVMe SSD and one Thunderbolt port.
Microsoft has added support for Zerologon exploitation detection to Microsoft Defender for Identity to allow Security Operations teams to detect on-premises attacks attempting to abuse this critical vulnerability. Microsoft Defender for Identity is a cloud-based security solution designed to leverage on-premises Active Directory signals to detect and analyze compromised identities, advanced threats, and malicious insider activity targeting an enrolled organization.
Today, Microsoft is taking further steps to kill off Internet Explorer in Windows 10 by removing support for Microsoft Teams. As part of this plan, Microsoft is no longer supporting Microsoft Teams in Internet Explorer starting on November 30th, 2020.
"When Databricks received FedRAMP High approval, we were able to move quickly to inherit that same Azure ATO and approve Azure Databricks for production workloads. Timing couldn't have been better, as we have been working with a number of VA customers implementing Databricks for critical programs." "We are pleased to add Azure Databricks to our portfolio of services approved for FedRAMP at the high impact level in Microsoft Azure Government," said Lily Kim, General Manager of Azure Government at Microsoft.
The Windows Store isn't as populated as Google and Apple's app marketplace, but there are plenty of apps that can improve your Windows 10 experience. Microsoft Store features a decent selection of apps and there are apps which can offer advanced personalization settings such as transparent taskbar.
Microsoft is reportedly creating a subsystem, similar to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, that allows Android applications to run on Windows 10. Microsoft realizes this and has already started offering limited support for launching Android apps in Windows 10 using the Your Phone app and supported Android devices.
Microsoft's Productivity Score has put in a public appearance in Microsoft 365 and attracted the ire of privacy campaigners and activists. Melissa Grant, director of product marketing for Microsoft 365, told us that Microsoft had been asked if it was possible to use the tool to check, for example, that everyone was online and working by 8 but added: "We're not in the business of monitoring employees."
Earlier this year, Microsoft added the Skype Meet Now feature to Windows 10 preview builds, and this same feature is now gradually rolling out to non-Insider users. When Meet Now is added to Windows 10, it will display a small button with a video camera icon on the system tray, which will launch Skype's Meet Now web conferencing software when clicked.